If you know the bounds over which your data to be plotted spans, I would set those limits first using axis or xlim and ylim (and set the ticks and tick labels with xticks, xticklabels, etc.) then addpoints to your animatedline. Doing so means that the axes will not need to recalculate its limits to include the new points and so the ticks won't need to change during the plotting.
Run the following two sections of code and watch the plotting. The first doesn't need to change the limits at all once the axes is created by the axis call. The second updates the limits with each new point. [The effect in MATLAB Answers is the same, since it only shows the final results, but in an interactive MATLAB session you will be able to see the difference.]
With axes limits set initially:
x = 0:10;
y = x.^2;
[minX, maxX] = bounds(x);
[minY, maxY] = bounds(y);
axis([minX maxX minY maxY])
h = animatedline(NaN, NaN);
for k = 1:numel(x)
addpoints(h, x(k), y(k));
pause(1)
end
Without axes limits set initially:
figure
h = animatedline(NaN, NaN);
for k = 1:numel(x)
addpoints(h, x(k), y(k));
pause(1)
end
